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Archives & Libraries information for Worcestershire and places above it in the hierarchy
Medical Records information for Worcestershire and places above it in the hierarchy
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Medical Records information for Worcestershire and places above it in the hierarchy
Worcestershire
Holdings of Lambeth Palace Library - a
Directory of medical licences issued by the Archbishop of Canterbury 1535-1775
lists some early practitioners in Worcestershire. Added 17 Mar 2009.
Archive copy of Medical Heritage of Great Britain
, a site produced by the Bath & Wessex Medical History Group, providing detailed information on a county level of the history of medical treatments, and locations of some associated buildings.
N.B. This is an archive copy and there is no indication of any update since 2006.
Added 17 Mar 2009.
England
Public Health and Epidemics
, this
Research Guide from The National Archives
, provides an interesting overview of 19th & 20th century attempts to safeguard the health of our ancestors.
Vaccination against smallpox was compulsory in England and Wales from 1853 until 1948. A
Vaccination Certificate
was issued to the parents of each vaccinated child as proof that the vaccination had taken place.
UK and Ireland
UK & Ireland -
Medical Records
- links and information.
Medical Records
UK and Ireland: Medical Records
The Wellcome Library has pages on
"finding medical archives elsewhere"
and on
"Biography and family history: general resources"
.
The archive of the
British Medical Journal
allow free full text search of articles since 1840 for those who may have written, or been mentioned in, their articles.
For explanations of old medical terms see
Glossary of Diseases
from Genealogy Quest, Medical Conditions - especially old ones from Andrew Billinghurst,
Old Disease Names frequently found on Death Certificates
from Greene County Museum and Diseases and Medical Terms for Genealogists from Ian Beach
Shirley Hornbeck's This And That....Genealogy Tips On Diseases, Medical Terms, Epidemics
(archived site).
John Snow
did pioneering work on the causes of cholera. This fascinating website includes the full text of Snow's 1855 publication
On the Mode of Communication of Cholera
and maps illustrating his work and ideas. See also
Cholera Inquiry Commission Report 1854
"into the causes which have led to, or have aggravated, the late outbreak of Cholera in the towns of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Gateshead and Tynemouth."
A Chronology of State Medicine, Public Health, Welfare and Related Services in Britain. 1066 - 1999
compiled by Michael D. Warren.
Public Health, Fifth Report of the Medical Officer of the Privy Council
, 1862 from Google Books
Antiquus Morbus
- A Glossary of Archaic Medical Terms, Diseases and Causes of Death (archived copy).
Records of Dentists, Doctors and Nurses - see
Occupations
Historical details and photographs of nearly 150 English, Welsh and Scottish
County Asylums
.
Hospitals:
Hospital Records Database
(A Joint Project of the Wellcome Trust and the Public Record Office) "This database provides information on the existence and location of the records of the hospitals in the U.K.".
Voluntary Hospitals Database
- "provides information on the existence and location of the records of UK hospitals".
Historic Hospitals Admissions Record Project (HHARP)
- "the home of 19th century children's hospital records".
The patients and some hospital staff may be listed in the
censuses
and senior staff in
trade directories
.
Hospital Records may be listed on the
National Register of Archives (NRA)
.
Historic Hospitals
- An Architectural Gazetteer, by Harriet Richardson. Provides brief histories, and numerous pictures and maps, of a large number of hospitals in Scotland, and of mental hospitals in Britain and Ireland.
A History of Epidemics in Britain
- by J. Doe.